Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar Alef — by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

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Date: 2024-02-12

Last Updated: 2025-03-27

Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh Adar (אַדָר) Alef & Bet

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Prayers as poems, תחינות teḥinot

Excerpt: A prayer-poem for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar Alef which occurs on Jewish leap years (before the month of Adar containing the festival of Purim). . . .

Content:

Blessing for Rosh Ḥodesh Adar Alef

May we learn to take up space,
even more than we are used to

May we start practicing now
being joyful and powerful

May we be patient with ourselves
as we try to learn
how to be patient

May we sit in the dark, breathing
with Esther and Mordecai
and even – boo – hey man

knowing that their time will come
knowing that our time will come

knowing that we can count on the moon
to bring us, in time,
to slowing and fasting
and merry-making and winning

and sweetness at the center of our lives

This prayer was created by Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit for the new moon of the month of Adar Alef in the year 5776 (2016).

Contributor: Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit

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Name: Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit
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Featured Image:

Title: ISS028-E-20073
Caption: ISS028-E-020073 (31 July 2011) --- Photographed by an Expedition 28 crew member onboard the International Space Station, this image shows the moon at center, with the limb of Earth near the bottom transitioning into the orange-colored troposphere, the lowest and most dense portion of the Earth's atmosphere. The troposphere ends abruptly at the tropopause, which appears in the image as the sharp boundary between the orange- and blue- colored atmosphere. The silvery-blue noctilucent clouds extend far above the Earth's troposphere.